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SEA-PORTS OF EVERY NATION IN THE WORLD. 

BY ALPHONSO^FIGSBEE. 



NEW YOKK : 

PUBLISHED BY A. RANNEY, 

No. 195 Broadway. 

1856. 




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EutcreoY according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, "by 
ADOLPIIUS KANNEY. 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. 






INTRODUCTION. 



To present a view of the Maritime Flags of all Nations is a greater task 
than the reader is probably aware of, — to procure the information found in 
this volume at one glance, the compiler has devoted much valuable time, and 
expended considerable money, but has cheerfully pursued his design to com- 
pletion, fully convinced that the public will duly appreciate his labors in 
their behalf. The pages here presented will show the mariner on the wide, 
unbounded ocean, the nature of any vessel that may come within the sweep 
of his horizon, as likewise the geographical position of the country from 
which she hails, and other valuable satistical information. It will prove a 
pleasing volume to the mariner in port, surrounded by a forest of masts, and 
myriads of otherwise embarrassing flags, to stand on his own deck, and refer 
to these pages, ascertaining at a glance the parentage, so to speak, of his 
neighbor. 

In returning to the friendly port of his family or friends, if he has little 
ones to welcome him back, no present could be found more acceptable to 
them, or, indeed, more useful ; for, being a book pleasing to the child, dis- 
playing the various colors and emblems of foreign lands, it will be looked on 
by the child as a handsome picture book ; they will naturally read it ; and 
A hen the parts are so short, but still so easy and full of meaning, that it 
*vill impress on their mind geographical recollections that will never be for- 
•otten, — and, indeed, it will be found to be most useful and instructive to all 
^ The Publisher would here say, that the selections of geography are from 
-lie most approved authors. 



MARITIME FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS. 



PILOT SIGNALS. 




RUSSIA 




FRAME 



HOLLAND 




PORTUGAL 



PRUSSIA 





ENGLAND 




AUSTRIA 



DENMARK! NAPOLITAN 



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THE UNITED STATES, occupy the middle division of 
North America, and consitutes the most celebrated Republic 
in the world, ranking among the great nations of the earth. 
It contains about 2,600,000 sq. miles, has a frontier of 1 0,000 
miles, a sea-coast of 4,000 miles, and a lake-coast of 1,200 
miles. It is bounded west by the Pacific, and east by the At- 
lantic Ocean. Population about 25,000,000. 



£^p This great Union contains 31 States and 6 Territories. 
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FIRST U. S. 

Commodore's Broad Pennant. 









United States Jack. 









THIRD V. S. SECOND V. S. 

Commodore's Broad Pennant. Commodore's Broad Pennant. 



MARITIME FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS, 




UNITED STATES LONG PEN- 
)ANT.— When this flag is worn on 
he main-top gallant mast by any ves- 
. el in port, it signifies she wants men . 



United States Excise* 

This Flag is worn by all vessels 
engaged in the revenue, also, on all 
the Custom Houses. 




BETHEL,— When worn signi- 
f k > public worship for seamen. 



LIBERIA, a republic of W. Africa, 
founded in 1821, by the free blacks from 
the United States. Its territory extends 
along the coast of Guinea for about 223 
miles, with a breadth inland of 26 m, 






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VENEZUELA, one of the republics 
of Columbia, contains a population of 
1,000,000; the chief towns are Caraccas, 
Cumana, Varinas, and Maracaibo. 



CUM ANA, a city of Venezuela, capi- 
tal of. the province of Cumana, on the 
east bank of the Mawzanares, at the 
mouth of the Gulf of Cariaca, 180 miles 
east of Caraccas. 




BRAZIL, an empire of South Ameri- 
ca, second only in extent to the great 
Empires of China or Russia, it is sup- 
posed to contain an area of 2,500 000 
square mitea. 



ST. DOMINGO, a seaport on the S. 
E. coast of Hayti. at the mouth of the 
Ozama, which forms its harbor. 



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Chill,— A republic of South Guatemala,-— A long and nar- 
Amenca, covering an area of 130- row tract of country connecting N. 
000 square miles. and South America. 




BUENOS ATBES, a city of Si Amer- Valparaiso,— The Drincioal sea 

ica, capitol of the republic of La Plata ™ »♦ Ir nu * i .u n P "* P £ 

on'the S. W. shore of the great river P n ™ ' ° n the ?aClfic ° Cea,1 > 

La Plata, about 200 miles from the sea, d0 miles N# N * W * from Santiago. 



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PAR AGUAY, a State of S. America, 
area 74,000 sq. m. The government 
is despotism, the entire power centers 
in a Dictator, who is commander-in-chief 
of the army, head of the church, the law, 
and every branch of the administration. 



URUGUAY, a republic of S. Amer- 
ica, is nearly a circular form, is supposed 
to contain an area of 200,000 ^sq. miles, 
an Integral, not a Federal Republic 




HAYTI, one of the W. I. islands, the 
government, though nominally republi- 
can, is in reality an elective military mon- 
archy, area 29,400 square miles. 



MONTEVIDEO, a fortified seaport 
city of S. America, capitol of Uruguay, 
on a peninsular extending into the es- 
tuary of the Plata on north side, 125 
miles E. by S. of Buenos Ayres. 



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MEXICO,— The second Repub- 
lic of North America, supposed to 
contain an area of 1,230,000 square 
miles. 



Argentine Republic. 




SANTA MARTHA, a seaport town 
of New Granada, on the Caribbean Sea, 
105 miles N. E. of Carthagena, and 1*75 
miles W.N« W. of Maracaibo. 



BOItlYlA, a republican State of South 
America, 318,000 square miles, Chuqm\ 
saca or La Plata is the capital city, Co- 
bija or Puerta de la Mar is the onlj se&» 
port Bolivia possesses. 



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St. GEORGE'S JACK, British White Ensign. 




LONDON, the Capital of the British 
Empire, on the N, and S. bank of the 
river Thames, 45 miles from the sea ; it 
cavers a space of almost 28 sa. miles. 



BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPA- 
NY British India covers the vast ex^ 
tent of 609.000 square miles, with a 
population of 93,930,000, which sup- 
ports an army of 295,840 British and 
native troops. 



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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland com- 
prises England, Ireland, v and Scotland, with the principality 
of Wales, commonly called the British Isles. The posses- 
sions of this kingdom embrace colonies in Asia, Africa, Amer- 
ica, and Australia, which, with the European part, form the 
British Empire. The population of the whole is upward of 
163,000,000, and, with the exception of China, has the great- 
est number of subjects under the control of any sovereign in 
the world. 



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Dublin, the capital of Ireland, on Ireland, an island of Europe in the 
he E. coast of the island, at the N. Atlantic Ocean, it is part of the 
nouth of the river LifFey. Kingdom of Great Britain and Ire-., 

land, area 31,874 sq. miles. 




Edinburg, a city, cap. of Scotland, ' 
337 miles N. N. W. of London. 



Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. 



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ISLE OF MAN, an Island belonging 
to Great Britain in the Irish Sea. Aroa 
280 square miles, exclusive of the Calf 
of Man, a small disjointed fragment of 
th* TslAnd. 



JERSEY, an Island in the English 
Channel, belonging to G. Britain, in St. 
Michael's Bay, 13 miles W- of the coast 
of France; area, 39,000 acres. 




MALTA. 



MALTA, an Island in the Mediterra- 
nean Sea, belonging to Great Britian. 
Area 98 sq. m., population about 103,- 
000 ; an excellent dock yard, victualling 
office, naval hospital, &c, has been coa 
sttucted at Yajetta, the Capital, 



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British Union Jack BRITISH MERCHANT, 




BRITISH BLUE ENSIGN, 
Or BUYiL THAMES YACHT CLUB, 



Quarantine. 



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THE IONIAN REPUBLIC. 



The Ionian Republic embraces several islands on the West 
coast of Greece, the principal of which are Corfu, Cephalonia, 
Zante, St. Maura, Ithaca, Cerigo and Paxo, The largest of 
these is Cephalonia, but Corfu is the seat of government. The 
inhabitants are Greeks and Italians, being in all about 220,000, 
and their little republic is under the protection of England. 



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British Custom House 



New Zealand, a group of small 
Islands in the South Pacific Ocean, 
belonging to the British Crown, the 
area is supposed to be 86,000 square 
miles. 




London Royal Yacht Club, 



DOMINICA, one of the Windward Is. 
lands in the West Indies belonging to 
Great Britain, situated between the is- 
lands of Guadaloupe and Martinique, 28 
miles from either. Area 1 86,43 6 acres. 






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FRANCE, an empire, so called, of the west of Europe; it 
is situated between lat. 42° 20' and 51° 5' north, and Ion. 4° 
50' west, and 8° 20' east ; bounded north west and north by 
the English channel, the straits of Dover and the North Sea, 
north east by Belgium, Dutch Luxemburg, and the Rhenish 
provinces of Prussia and Bavaria ; east by Baden, Switzer- 
land, and Sardinia; south by the Mediterranean and Spain, 
and west by the bay of Biscay and the Atlantic. It is 664 
miles long, and 620 broad; area 203,736 sq. miles, with a 
population of 35,063,000 ; colonial population, 2,063,000. 



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FRENCH SIGNAL 

FOR A PILOT. 



CALAIS, a seaport of France, on 
the Straits of Dover, 29 miles N. N. 
£. of Boulogne. 



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French, Eastern and African 
Colonies. 




Western Colonies. 



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Dunkirk, a seaport of the North of CORSICA, a large Island of the Me- 

France, there is an inner and outer S*™ 10 "?' belonging to France, 10 m. 

, A ' , . xl j i i t i N. of Sardinia, from which it is separat- 

roadstead with good holding ground. ed hy the 8trait of Bonifacio 




* Marseilles, a city of France, on 

ALGIERS, a country of Africa, under „ ., f b f the Gulf of Lyons, 

the mditary rule of France. *" «<» 0I **% Ul V Pq . J 

' 3?0 miles S. % of Paris. 



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The empire of RUSSIA is one of the most extensive am 
powerful empires of the world ; it comprises the whole north- 
ern portion of the eastern hemisphere, from the frontiers of 
Posen and the Gulf of Bothnia on the west, to the Pacific 
ocean and Behrings straits on the east, being a distance of 
nearly 6000 miles ; its extent from north to south is great, 
stretching from the 38th to the 70th, and in some parts to 
the 78th degree of north latitude, exhibiting an average 
breadth of 1500 mils; exclusive of this, Russia claims a large 
tract in the north west part of America. 



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Russian Transport. RUSSIAN JACK. 




POLAND, a kingdom under the do- _ . «* * - 

S, n SSSiei cover3aaareaof Russian Merchant. 



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REYEL, a Maritime Government, of _ 

Russia, in Europe, area, inclusive of the . All the Russsian Colonies on the Amer- 

Islands belonging to it, is 6,870 square *can Continent comprising an extent of 

mi les. area, 17,500 sq.nv 




COUrlaild. Russian Man of War. 



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Courlaud 



COURLAND, a Government of Eu- 
ropean Russia, on its W. frontier, 
bounded N. by the Gulf of Riga, E. the 
government of Witepsk, S. that of Wilna, 
and W. the Baltic ; area, 10,000 sq. m. 




BIG A. 



RIGA, a City and river Fort of Eu- 
ropean Russia, Capital of Livonia, on 
the river Dwina, in the Gulf of Riga. 



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The empire of AUSTRIA is situated in central and sou- 
thern Europe ; it extends from about 42° to 51° north lat., 
and from 8° 30' to 26° 30' east Ion. ; its length from Lake 
Maggiore in Italy to the east frontier of Transylvania, is 
about 860 miles ; its breath from the south frontier of Croa- 
tia to the most northern point of Bohemia, about 492 miles. 
It covers an area of 257,368 square miles, bounded south by 
Turkey and the Adriatic sea, west by the states of Sardinia, 
Switzerland, and Bavaria, north by Prussia and Prussian Po- 
land, and east by Russia and Moldavia. 



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■WIRTBMBUBO, a Kingdom of the *OSTOPir . «*. to 

German confederation, bounded by N. ^ w \f. -! y of German y. °™ 
"W. and S. W. by the territory of Baden ? he J^ 8 ™ 6 ?. 19 n»I«> above its mouth, 

B.andS.E.ofBayaria ^ ' "» * ho Baltic . an « 40 miles N. E. 0/ 

Scheneren. 




HANSETOWNS. 



LUBECK, a city of north Germany, 
the capitol of the Hanseatic towns, on 
the Gulf of Lubec in the Baltic, 36 miles 
north-east of Hamburg. 



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GRAND DUCHY OF MECKLEN- 
BURG-, a State of N. Germany, length 
E. to W .100 m., average breadth 45 m.; 
area- 4.8^3 so. m. 



BREMEN, one of the three free Ger- 
man Hanseatic Cities, on the Weser, by 
which it is intersected 60 miles S. "W. 
of Hamburg. 




DUCHY OF OLDENBURG, a State 
of N. W. Germany, the chief towns are 
Oldenburg, Euten, and Birkenteld, area 
2,412 square miles. 



SAXONY, a Kingdom of Eastern 
Germany; it contains the Circles of 
Dresden, Leipsic, Twickau, and Budia- 
sin. Area 5,769 square miles. 



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MERCHANT of Hamburg. 



REPUBLIC OF HAMBURG, a stato 
of N. "W. Germany, the territories of 
which comprise the city of Hamburg, 
and the surrounding country; area, 150 
square miles. 




• WISMAR, a town and seaport of N". 
Germany, in Mecklenberg, 18 miles N. 
by E. of Schnerin ; the harbor is exten- 
sive and safe. 



KifeiXIi, 



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merchant or Austria. 



Austrian Man of War, 




GALLICIA, a kingdom and province 
of Austria, it contains 381 towns, and 
covers an area of 34,340 square miles. 



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PRUSSIA, an important European kingdom, between the 
49th and 56th degrees of north lat., and the 6th and 23d deg. 
of east Ion. It contains 25 provinces, and covers an area of 
107,937 square miles, with a population of about 16,000,000. 
The government is an absolute monarchy. Dantzic, Konigs- 
berg, Stetten, and Stralsund are the chief sea-ports. 



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Prussian Merchant 



PRUSSIAN MAN OF WAR. 




STETTIN, a seaport town of the 
States of Prussia, on the left bank of 
the river Oder, about 36 miles above 
where it unites with the Baltics. 



PRUSSIAN SIGNAL UF PILOT, 



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FRANKFORT, a seaport of Prussia, 
province of Brandenburgh on tho river 
Odor, 50 miles E. by S. of Berlin. 



DANTZIC, a commercial city and 
stronghold of the Prussian States, on 
the L. bank of the Vistula, about 3 m. 
*rom its mouth. 




ElMng, — A seaport of Prussia, KONIGSBURG, a large city of the 
31 miles S, E. by E. of Dantzig and Prussian States, on tho river Pregel 
58 miles S. W. of Koningsburg. near whore lt f;ills int0 ^ Frische. 



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BRANDENBURG, a town of Prussia, 
:apital of the province of Brandenburg 
>n the river Havel, 35 miles W. S w! 
»f Berlin, and 38 miles N. E. of Madge- 
>urg. & 



BRANDENBURG, a province of Prus- 
sia, between 51, 10, and 53, 37, N. lat 
and 11, 13, and 16, 12 E. Ion. Area 
15,500 square miles, 




Prussian Pendant 



STRALSUND, a strongly fortified 
town of the Prussian States, on the nar- 
row strait separating the Isle of Ruejen. 
from the continent 



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SWEDEN, a kingdom of northern Europe, comprising, 
with Norway and Lapland, the whole of the Scandinavian 
peninsula, having n. e. Russian Finland, e. and s. the Gulf of 
Bothnia and the Baltic, s. w. the sounds Kattegat and Skaer- 
rack, and w. and n. Norway. Length n. to s. 950 miles ; av- 
erage breadth 190 miles; area about 170,700 sq. miles. It is 
now divided into 24 lans or governments. The army may 
consist of 40,000 ; the navy is considerable, and employs 
about 24,000 men. 



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JUercnant or Sweden. Swedish Man of War. 




Sweden and Norway Pendant. 



SWEDEN AND NORWAY 
Union Jack. 



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NORWAY, a country in the north of Europe, at present 
united to the crown of Sweden, bounded e. by Russian Lap- 
land and Sweden, s. by the Skagarrac, separating it from 
Denmark, and w. and n. by the North Sea and the Atlantic 
and Arctic Oceans. Its entire length is H 000 . m \ le ^,° n S? 
an area of 121,725 sq. miles. The pop. is about 2,000,OOU. 
Christiana, which stands at the head of Christiana Frith, or 
Gulf 25 miles from the sea, is the capital of JNorway 



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Norwegian Merchant. Norwegian Man or War 




EXCISE OF NORWAY, Norwegian Post Office 



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SPAIN, a kingdom of southern Europe, occupying the 
east and largest portion of its south west peninsula; bounded 
north east by France, north by the bay of Biscay, west by 
Portugal and the Atlantic, and south and east by the straits 
of Gibralter and the Mediterranean ; its greatest length from 
east to west is about 650 miles ; its greatest breadth, 550 m. 
It contains 49 provinces, covers an area of 182,758 square 
miles, with a population of 13,000,000; the colonies are Cu- 
ba, Porto Rico, Canary, Philippine, Caroline and Ladrone isles, 
the only colonies now remaining ; 



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MERCHANT OP SPAIN, Spanish Man or War. 




BISCAY, a district in the N. of Spain, ft „ . «r ¥ttM ^w^ -r . w 

containing three provinces, area 2,963 ^*A1«*»UI JSJItwill AIj 
square miles, bounded E. by France and _, 

Navarre, W. and S. Burgos, and part of FOR A PILOT, 

Old Gastile, and N. the bay ot Biscay. 



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CATALONIA Province of Spam on MA . JO ROA, thelargest 01 the Balearic 

the h, portion of the kmgdom. It has j , d . the ' Medit erranean, belonging 

the B. Pyrenees, which separate it from £ s , Palma3 ta the chief t0 ^ . areai 

France, on the N., Mediterranean the , J-in ' m ;i« H 

E.. and Aragon the W. xiiQ sa * D 



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PORTUGAL, a kingdom, the most western state of* En 
rope, between the 37th and 42d degree of north latitude* and 
the 6th and 10th of west longitude, bounded east and Berth 
by Spain, and south and west by the Atlantic; length north 
to south about 350 miles ; average breadth rather more than 
100 miles; it contains seven provinces, covers an area of 
36,510 square miles, with a population of 3,900,000. The 
chief cities are Oporto, Villa Real, Colombra, Lisbon. Evora 
and Faro; the colonies comprise the Azores, Madeira, and 
Cape Verd Island^ the towns of Goa and Macao in Africa. 



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OPORTO, a seaport of Portugal, on ,«. 

^°Zit^Sot nro ' m Portn g« ese M ™ «f War. 




PORTUGUESE COASTER. 



OR MERCHANT. 



Fortngneso Signal for a Pilot. 



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ITALY forms a grea* peninsula, bounded on the E. by the Gulf 
nf Venice, and on the west by the Mediierranean. Italy comprises 
the kingdom of Sardinia, the kingdom of Naples, the kingdom of 
Lombardy and Venice, the Popedom, the Grand Duchy of Tus- 
cany and Lucca, the Duchies of Parma and Modena, the Republic 
of San Marino, and the Principality of Monaco. 



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CARRARA, a town of the Duchy 01 
Massa, on the Lavenza, 3 1-2 miles from 
the Mediterranean, and 60 miles W. N. 
"W. of Florence. 



MONACO, a town, and smau prin- 
cipality of N. Itaty, which is under the 
protection of the King of Sardinia, with 
an area of 52 sq. miles. 




MESSINA, a city and seaport of Si- 
cily, near the N. K. end of the Island, 
8 miles N. W. of Reggio, 66 1-2 miles 
N. N. E. of Catania, and 120 miles E. by 
N. of Palermo. 



SICILY, the largest Island in the 
Mediterranean, separated from the S. 
end of Italy by the Strait of Messina, 
only two miles across. Area 10,608 
square miles. 






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Papal Standard, Napolitan Signal for a Pilot, 




ROME, a city of Italy, built on both 
jiides of the river Tiber, 16 m. from its 
nouth, 115 miles N.W f Naples, and 
145 S. & E. of the citj of JFlorenca. 



Roman Merchant. 



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LEGHORN, a city and seaport, the 

principal emporium of Italy, in the 

LEGHORN G AliLiEY Duchy of Tuscany, on tho Mediterranean, 

62 miles W. S.W. of Florence. 




DUCHY OFLUCA, a State of central ANCONIA, a Maritime city of Italy 
ftaly, the smallest of the Italian States, the third in the Papal States, on the 
area 420 square miles. Adriatic Sea or the Gulf of Venice, 188 

miles E.N. of Rome 



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SWITZERLAND, a republic of Cen- 
tral Europe, having Germany on the N. 
and E., Italy on the S. and France on 
the W., length N. W. 200 m., breadth N. 
and S. 140 miles. 



SWITZERLAND. 




GRAND PUCHY OF TUSCAN V, 
a State of N. and Central Italy, it con- 
tains an area of 8,381 sq. m^ the chief 
towns are Florence, Pisa, Sienna, Arezza, 
and Grossetto. 



NAPLES, a kingdom comprising the 
south portion of Italy, with Sicily and 
the adjacent islands. 



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The kingdom of DENMARK lies on the s. side of the 
entrance to the Baltic, bounded e. by the Baltic, the little 
Belt, and the Cattegat, n. by the Shagerac, and w. by the 
North Sea. It covers an area of 21,856 sq. m., and has a pop. 
of 3,000,000. The foreign possessions of this kingdom are 
Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Isles, the islands of St. 
Thomas and Santa Cruz in the West Indies, and the Nicobar 
islands in the bay of Bengal. Her navy at present i3 small, 
compared tp her former greatness, 



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HIGH ADMIRAL. D aush Man of War. 




Danish Merchant, 
in the Mediterranean, 



DANISH MERCHANT 



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HANOVER, a kingdom of n. w. Germany, situated between 
lat. 5V 18' and 53" 52' n. and Ion. 6° 43' and 11° 45' east; 
bounded n. by the German ocean and the Elbe, and e. and w. 
by Holland ; length from the mouth of the Elbe s. 172 miles, 
breadth e. and w. 180 m. It has 7 districts, with an area of 
14,276 sq. m. The principal towns are Hanover, the capital, 
with a population of 25,000, and Hildeshcim, 1 6,000 ; there 
are 180 towns and 5000 villages, with about 300,000 houses. 



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dom of Hanover, on the river Ilmenau, MERCHANT OF HANOVER, 
27 m. S. B. of Hamburg 




GENOA, a maritime city of Sardinia, 
IlailOVCrian Pendant. ' 51 th ® head of the & l]f of the same name, 

of Leghorn, 



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The kingdom of HOLLAND lies in n. w. Europe, between 
lat. 51° 12' and 53° 30' north, and Ion. 3^ 22 and 7° 12' east, 
having e. Hanover and Rhenish Prussia, s. Belgium, and w. 
and n. the North sea ; length n. e. to s. w. about 200 m. ; av- 
erage breadth about 65 in. ; it has 12 provinces, and covers an 
area of 13,598 sq. m., with a pop. of about 3,500,000. The 
colonies in the east are Java and the Spice islands, in Africa, 
Elmina, in Guiana, Surinam, and in the West Indies, the is- 
lands of Ouracoa and St. Eustatia; the population of these 
colonies is about 7,500,000. 



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AMSTERDAM, a seaport capital of 
the province of N Holland, on the 
south of the river T f an inlet of the Zuy- 
der Zee. J 



MERCHANT OF HOLLAND. 




ROTTERDAM, 'city of South JIol 
Zealand) — One of the Provinces land, the second in the kingdom, on th« 
of Holland, area, 671 sq. miles. north bank of the river Mews 17 miles 

^ from its mouth, and 35 miles S. S. W. of 

Amsterdam. 



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BELGIUM, a Kingdom, is situated between France aud Hol- 
land, it has been established since the seper'ation of its provinces, 
from those ef Holland by the revolution of 'lS30,^it has 9 pro. 
vinces, 96 cities, and 3 339 villages. Brussels, the capital is tho 
most beautiful city in Europe. Antwerp is the principal commer- 
cial city. 



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BELGIAN JACK 



Belgian merchant 




OSTKND , a fortified sea port town FLANDERS, is a fertile and well 

of Belgium, Province of West Flanders cultivated district of Belgium, which is 

on the shores of the North Sea, 14 m. divided [nto the prov i QC es of East and 

West by North of Bruges. Weat n an( iers. 



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SARDINIA. 



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SARDINIA, a kingdom of S Europe;' being the whole of N. 
Italy, W. of the Tessino, including the territory of Piedmont, Ge- 
noa, Nice, the Duchy of Savoy on the W. of the Alps, and the 
Island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean sea and covers an area of 
29,102 square miles. 



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Pilot or Sardinia. 



Merchant of Sardinia. 




SARDINIA, an Island of S. Europe, 
the largest in the Mediterranean ; it lies 
between the 39th and 41st deg. of N. 
lat. 8th and 10th of E. Ion. Area with its 
dependant Islands, 9.240 so miles. 



SARDINIAN MAN OF WAR. 



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TURKEY, or the Ottoman Empire, a very extensive 
country, partly in s. e. Europe and partly in w. Asia. The 
limits of the Turkish empire are not easily defined, inasmuch 
as it is usually represented as including several extensive 
countries that are either substantially or virtually indepen- 
dent. The extent and population of this vast country is not 
known with precision — Turkey in Europe about 210,000 sq. 
m., and a pop. of from 15 to 16,000,000; Asiatic Turkey is 
of still greater extent, but its pop. is much less ; it may com- 
prise an area of 437,000 sq. m. with a pop. of about 10,000,000. 



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GRAND VIZIER, 



EMPEROR OF TURKEY, the Gov- 
ernment of Turkey is a species of theoc- 
racy, the Emperor has the lives and 
property of his subjects at pleasure* 




TURKISH Man of War. 



TURKISH 

GRAND SEIGNIOR. 



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JERUSALEM, a City of Fales MACCO, acity of the east, the birth- 
tine, 128 miles S. S. W. of Damaa place of Mahommed, in Arabia, Similes 
cus, and 33 miles E. of Jaffa. east from the fort of r 'J iodda on the Red 



Sea. 



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T1MPOLI, the most Easterly of tho 
Barbary States, bounded E. by Barca, 
v . Tunis, S. Ferran and the Desert, and 
N. the Mediterranean. 



Merchant. 




TRIPOLI. 



TRIPOLI, a maritime city of N. Af- 
rica, capital of the regency of that name, 
on a low rocky tongue of land project- 
ing into the Mediterranean. 



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ARABIA, an extensive peninsula on 
the S. W. of the Asiatic continent, 
bounded S. and E. by the Indian Ocean, 
N. E. by the Gulfs of Oman and Persia, 
W. the Red Sea, the N. boundary not 
properly known. 



SMYRNA, an ancient city and sea- 
port of Asia Minor, the greatest empo- 
rium of W. Asia, on the W. side of the 
Meles, a small stream at the bottom of 
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MERCEL^NT. 



JAPAN, an empire of the east coast 
of continental Asia, -opposite "the sea of 
Japan, it is supposed to cover an area 
of 266.600 square miles. 



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TUNIS 



TUNIS, a kingdom of N. Africa, a 
dependency of the Turkish Empire, hav- 
ing S. E. the regency of Tripoli, N. W. 
that of Algiers, S. and "W. the desert, 
N. and E. the Mediterranean. 




TUNIS, a maritime city of N. Africa, 
cap. of the kingdom, on the W. side of 
the Gulf of Tunis, 4 miles "W. from the 
Sea, and 3 miles S. "W. of the ruins of 
ancient Carthage. 



•S1A-M, a country ot India, bound 
ed N. by the Loas country, E. the 
empire of Anam, W. the Birmese 
empire and S. gulf of Siam, area 
190,000 square miles. 



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MOROCCO, an empire which covers 
a tract of country in the N.W. of Africa; 
area, 219,300 square miles. 



EMPEROR, or Sultan of Morocco, 
the government is a gloomy despotism, 
the Sultan being the head of church and 
state, he has no ministers, all isjlone 
by his command. 




PERSIA, an extensive country in 
central Asia, area 450,000 square miles, 
the government is despotic. Teheran is 
the capital, 70 miles south of the Cas- 
pian 



Merchant of PERSIA. 



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CHINA, an Empire of S. E. Asia^ be- 
tween lat. 20 and 56 N.and Ion. 70 and 
144 E., in form nearly square. It contains 
15 provinces and covers a space of 
1,297,999 sq. miles. 



EMPEROR of China, the governmert 
consists of an Emperor who is called thj 
son of Heaven ; his Imperial Majesty i 
looked on as father of the whole pop' 




COCHIN CHINA, a province of the 
Empire of Anam, a country of Asia, oc- 
cupying the E. portion of the great E. 
peninsula of S. Asia. 



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